Research interests

• Urban environmental politics
• Democracy, governance, and governmentality
• 'Critical' geographic information science
• The use of geographic information systems (GIS) in participatory research and activism
• Web mapping and web tools for facilitating public involvement in urban planning

Current and recent research efforts

• Adapting (to) the climate crisis: Urban environmental governance and the politics of mobility in Seattle 
  (abstract | abbreviated dissertation proposal)

• Participatory Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (PGIST)
  Outreach Coordinator / Research Assistant, 9/03 - 12/07
  See also our demonstration website: www.LetsImproveTransportation.org

Selected publications

• Ramsey, K., (forthcoming) Urban Waterfront Transformation as a Politics of Mobility: Lessons from Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Debate. In G. Desfor, Q. Stevens, J. Laidley & D. Schubert (Eds.), Fixity and Flow of Urban Waterfront Change. London: Routlege.
  
  
• Ramsey, K. S., & Wilson, M. W. (forthcoming). Rethinking the 'informed' participant: Precautions and recommendations for the design of online deliberation. In T. Davies & B. Noveck (Eds.), Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
  
  
• Ramsey, K.S. (2009). GIS, Modeling, and Politics: On the Tensions of Collaborative Decision Support. Journal of Environmental Management, 90(6) 1972 – 1980. Special Issue on "Collaborative GIS: Perspectives on decision support and visualization"
  
  
• Ramsey, K. (2008). A Call for Agonism: GIS and the Politics of Collaboration Environment and Planning A, 40, 2346-2363.
  
  
• Wilson, M. W. and Ramsey, K. (2008). Integrating online deliberation into transportation investment decision-making: Preliminary reflections on a field experiment. In Proceeding of Tools for Participation, DIAC / Online Deliberation 2008.
  
  
• Nyerges, T., Ramsey, K., & Wilson, M. W. (2006). Design considerations for an internet portal to support public participation in transportation improvement decision making. In S. Dragicevic & S. Balram (Eds.), Collaborative GIS. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc.
  
  
• Nyerges, T., Jankowski, P., Tuthill, D., & Ramsey, K., ( 2006). Collaborative water resource decision support: results of a field experiment. Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  
  
• Jankowski, P., Robischon, S., Tuthill, D., Nyerges, T., & Ramsey, K. (2006) Design considerations and evaluation of a collaborative, spatio-temporal decision support system. Transactions in GIS